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en-usPenn State University Relationsnews@psu.edu (Penn State News)H1N1 flu only the latest animal-related disease threathttp://news.psu.edu/story/176324/2009/05/22/h1n1-flu-only-latest-animal-related-disease-threat
Continuing reports on the spread of the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, have served as reminders that animal health and human health are more closely linked than many people realize, according to researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.
http://news.psu.edu/story/176324/2009/05/22/h1n1-flu-only-latest-animal-related-disease-threatFri, 22 May 2009 16:09 -0400Penn State News - veterinary scienceSwine flu nothing new to scientists in College of Ag Scienceshttp://news.psu.edu/story/176701/2009/05/07/swine-flu-nothing-new-scientists-college-ag-sciences
Swine flu is no mystery to scientists in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, who have been keeping a wary eye on the virus in pigs for decades and researching better vaccines to prevent it, methods to limit its spread, and ways to predict and gauge the risks it poses to human health.
http://news.psu.edu/story/176701/2009/05/07/swine-flu-nothing-new-scientists-college-ag-sciencesThu, 07 May 2009 17:10 -0400Penn State News - veterinary scienceProbing Question: How does antibiotic resistance happen?http://news.psu.edu/story/141168/2009/03/02/research/probing-question-how-does-antibiotic-resistance-happen
Before Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin in 1928, there were any number of unpleasant ways that bacteria could kill you. Countless women died from infection after childbirth, and a simple chest cold could turn into deadly pneumonia. Need surgery? Not so fast—without antibiotics, the risk of sepsis was dangerously high. In fact, any injury that broke the skin was potentially fatal: Lord Carnarvon, the discoverer of King Tut's tomb, died in 1923 from an infected shaving cut.
http://news.psu.edu/story/141168/2009/03/02/research/probing-question-how-does-antibiotic-resistance-happenMon, 02 Mar 2009 (All day) -0500Penn State News - veterinary scienceProbing Question: How can I help my dog weather thunderstorm phobia?http://news.psu.edu/story/141348/2006/10/09/research/probing-question-how-can-i-help-my-dog-weather-thunderstorm-phobia
When summer storms roll through Central Pennsylvania, Nancy Dreschel's thoughts turn to her patients who suffer from severe thunderstorm phobia. "They can really freak out," she says. "Some pace the floors nervously, while others will hide, or chew the furniture. I even had one patient crash through a closed second story window in total panic."
http://news.psu.edu/story/141348/2006/10/09/research/probing-question-how-can-i-help-my-dog-weather-thunderstorm-phobiaMon, 09 Oct 2006 (All day) -0400Penn State News - veterinary sciencePandemic Evolution?http://news.psu.edu/story/141582/2006/06/05/research/pandemic-evolution
The United States is braced to join the 51 or more nations coping with a virulent strain of bird flu. Will the H5N1 virus remain an avian disease or will it make the leap to human transmission?
http://news.psu.edu/story/141582/2006/06/05/research/pandemic-evolutionMon, 05 Jun 2006 (All day) -0400Penn State News - veterinary scienceProbing Question: Why are some strains of E. coli resistant to antibiotics?http://news.psu.edu/story/141224/2006/03/27/research/probing-question-why-are-some-strains-e-coli-resistant-antibiotics
Although they're among the simplest organisms, bacteria are some of the most creative life forms on earth. Just ask molecular biologist Chobi DebRoy, director of Penn State's Gastroenteric Disease Center. "We receive bacterial samples from all over the world—from veterinary clinics, medical centers, zoos, farms," DebRoy says. Her lab works to identify disease—causing strains of E. coli and to determine whether they are antibiotic-resistant.
http://news.psu.edu/story/141224/2006/03/27/research/probing-question-why-are-some-strains-e-coli-resistant-antibioticsMon, 27 Mar 2006 (All day) -0500Penn State News - veterinary scienceProbing Question: Does my dog really love me?http://news.psu.edu/story/141220/2005/07/05/research/probing-question-does-my-dog-really-love-me
Did Lassie really love Timmy? Or was she only saving him from disaster, time and again, so that he would reward her later with a tasty morsel from the dinner table?
Scientists, veterinarians, and dog-owners have long questioned the relationship between man and his best friend. Even philosophers have ventured opinions on the idea: Plato described dogs as "lovers of learning" and Voltaire refuted Descartes' theory that dogs were merely unintelligent machines.
http://news.psu.edu/story/141220/2005/07/05/research/probing-question-does-my-dog-really-love-meTue, 05 Jul 2005 (All day) -0400Penn State News - veterinary sciencePseudorabies in PA Rabieshttp://news.psu.edu/story/141393/2004/12/01/research/pseudorabies-pa-rabies
There are some 7,600 pig farms in Pennsylvania, containing from a few to 12,000 pigs. Lancaster and Lebanon counties have the densest pig populations and the biggest problem with the swine virus called pseudorabies; there, between 1992 and '94, 91 herds were under quarantine for pseudorabies infection.
http://news.psu.edu/story/141393/2004/12/01/research/pseudorabies-pa-rabiesWed, 01 Dec 2004 (All day) -0500Penn State News - veterinary scienceBay Watchhttp://news.psu.edu/story/140644/2001/09/01/research/bay-watch
In the mid 1980s, people fishing on Presque Isle Bay began catching catfish that had strange bumps on their lips—like flattened raspberries beneath the skin.
http://news.psu.edu/story/140644/2001/09/01/research/bay-watchSat, 01 Sep 2001 (All day) -0400Penn State News - veterinary scienceClean Cowshttp://news.psu.edu/story/140987/1998/01/01/research/clean-cows
Some cows we call pigs," Jeff Gandy says, walking down the middle of the milking barn between two rows of swishing tails.
"They're good cows," he adds. "They're just messy. They present a bit more of a problem than the other ones."
Gandy, manager of Penn State's mastitis research herd, stops behind a remarkably unsullied specimen with a yellow ear tag, and pats her haunch. "This one, she doesn't like to get dirty," he says. "She never comes in with mud on her."
http://news.psu.edu/story/140987/1998/01/01/research/clean-cowsThu, 01 Jan 1998 (All day) -0500Penn State News - veterinary science